30 posts tagged “knitting”
Three new scarves posted in my Etsy shop, more coming soon.
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
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My So Called Scarf (Heathcliff)
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
Cloud Around My Neck (Dark Denim Blue)
100% baby alpaca. sooooo soft...
My latest completed knitting project on Knytz, a consignment job I call Cloud Around My Neck that has a new home waiting in the midwest. 100% baby alpaca wool, it is super cozy soft and warm. mmmmmmmm. It is a good length too - double wrapped around my neck there. -->
this is what the geeksplosion was about.
but being a WWdN reader for many years (50,000 monkeys on 50,000 typewriters can't be wrong), I thought it would be entertaining to get a slightly more skeptical looking picture than the utter fangirldom one above.
Background:
Tuesday night was the Child’s Play charity dinner and silent auction, and at the last minute a free spare ticket fell in my lap. Anyway, Wil was super nice, a very normal geek guy (wish there were more of those at Black Hat and fewer Wannabe Rockstar Hackers). He twittered Tuesday that he was ‘in Seattle wearing his binary scarf so he was nerdy AND warm’. So when I ended up walking just a couple feet from him into the dinner (it wasn't creepy stalker-ish, I swear, and I didn't interrupt some other fan, my mamma raised me to be polite!) I asked him to post a picture of that scarf, that I was interested for my next geek knitting project. He said his friend made it for him, that it says ‘awesome’ in binary, I told him about the Fibonacci scarf I had knit and the prime number scarf I’m working on… I don’t remember exactly what happened next but within minutes he had bought the scarf. Now if I’d just met the guy, that would be cool enough. But he bought something I made! That is just… too… awesome. Can I claim to knit for celebrities now? LOL.
pedicure socks
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=18194805
fibonacci scarf
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=18193885
and the fibonacci scarf pattern for you DIY folks!
READY
10: K1, *sl 1, K1, psso but before dropping slipped st K into back of it* K1.
20: *P2tog, do not sl sts off needle, P first st again, sl both sts off needle*
30: GOTO 10
RUN
see the start of the project and the stitch pattern detail here.
Awhile back I saw a sample scarf in a yarn store that was absolutely gorgeous, but it took me 15 minutes of internal debate to convince myself it was actually knit and not crochet. Even then I had no clue how to do it – was it knit horizontally? Vertically? The pattern was advertised as free with the purchase of a skein of yarn… and of course the yarn was what I consider crazy expensive ($32.95). So then I spent another 15 minutes debating whether to buy it or not…
I bought it.
Anyway, get to the paying part and ask about the free-pattern-with-yarn, thinking it is from the yarn manufacturer or was designed by someone in house or something. The gal turns to the computer, goes to a website, and prints the pattern. As in, I could have gotten it without buying a skein of yarn if I’d known where to look. The yarn I bought wasn’t even the yarn the pattern calls for – I’m using Lorna’s Laces ‘Lion and Lamb’ 50% silk 50% wool yarn with size 9 needles instead of what the pattern calls for. But OMG this yarn is GORGEOUS and SOFT.
Anyway, the pattern looks crazy complicated, but it is actually insanely easy. After doing the first 2 rows a couple times, I don't need to follow the pattern and I can work on it in autopilot without meticulously counting stitches on every row like my other work-in-progress, which I can't detail here because it is a Christmas gift for someone I know reads my blog. Anyway, I expect I’m going to make many more of these (using more than one skein of a less expensive yarn) and experiment with making them wider and longer (I like long scarves, and this is going to end up being a fairly short and narrow scarf when its done).
I got this done over a hair appt today.
Recently, the actress who played Saffron on Firefly auctioned a handknit scarf on ebay for charity. The winning bid was $255.00.
Some folks at work thought there was enough of a resemblance to suggest we could be sisters... not sure I agree with them, but still, it got me thinking. I'm not an actress but I do knit and there are lots of deserving charities out there. So here's the deal: donate $250 to either Children's Hospital or Climb for Kids and I'll knit you one of Jayne's Cunning Hats, or a Fibonacci Scarf in the two colors of your choice.
My name is KymPossible, and I am a yarn addict.
This is my yarn stash in my garage, roughly 95% of my total yarn hoard. For reference, the shelving unit holding my yarn is 6'x6', and 16" deep (and yes, those cubbies are filled back to front). I have even more yarn in the house because I have several WIP's (works in progress, for those of my readers not hip to knitta lingo) in the knitting basket by my reading corner. At this point I avoid yarn and craft stores entirely because
1. I recognize I have a problem restraining myself from buying more yarn if it is pretty/feels nice/is on sale/I get excited about a new project and
2. I have enough yarn already to knit for a year probably. In my stash I've got cotton, wool, cashmere, silk, mohair, alpaca, bamboo, chenille, acrylic, hand dyed sock yarn from the Yarn Pirate, baby yarns, sock yarns, bulky yarns... you name it. I cannot knit fast enough to catch up on all the projects I have queued up.
That said, I have managed to finish a couple projects recently. The Transformers washcloth (ok, a small project, but still, I finished it!) a few Zune and iPhone socks, and the subject of my next blogpost, the Fibonacci Scarf.
Elle sent me this link, and I had to make one... It whipped up pretty quickly. If you try it, the original blog the pattern was on has an error on line 25 (at least it did when I copied the pattern), it should be:MB4, K3, P5, K5, P1, K2, P3, K2, P1, K5, P5, K3, MB4.
this is right after I finished knitting it, once it is washed once it should lay nicely flat and not ripple at the sides... I think.
